Modern World History chapter 11

The Great Reform Act

In1832 large towns and cities in Britain received greater representation in Parliament as a result of

Parliamentary Democracy

Though reforms that took place during the late 1800s, Britain transformed itself into

Farmers and wealth landowners, because they kept grain prices high

The British Corn Laws were supported by

Irish Catholics were allowed to vote and hold office

What did the Catholic Emancipation Act accomplish in Ireland in 1829?

Marxism gained only limited support among the British working class

One result of the social welfare reforms passed in Great Britain in the early 1900s was that

Franco-Prussian War

What war brought an end to France's 2nd empire?

Theodore Herzl helped to launch modern Zionism

What was a result of widespread anti-semitism in Europe in the late 1800s?

Created a system of free public elementary schools

In order to repress the involvement of the Catholic Church in French government, reformers

The 1st women's right convention

In 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized

Populist Party

In the 1890s, US farmers joined city workers to support the

Rural towns that had an unfairly large # of representatives in Parliament

Rotten boroughs in Britain were

Secret Ballots

The Chartist movement in Britain demanded

A united Italy became a rival on France's border

What happened after the French helped Italian nationalists defeat Austria in the mid-1800s?

Conservative Party

By the 1860s Benjamin Disraeli had forged the old Tory Party into the modern

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New Laws Limited women and children to a 10hr work day

Socialists and union members

when it was founded in 1900, the British Labour Party was primarily made up of

Irish Nationalist Movement

Charles Stewart Parnell was a leading figure in the

Irish peasants paid high rents to british absentee landlords

In the 1800s what was a major reason why the Irish resented the British in Ireland?

Turn Mexico into a French satellite

Through the aid of Prince Maximillian, Napoleon III hoped to turn

The Fabian Society

Which of the following was a socialist group that had a strong influence on British politics?

Had no right to their own earnings

Under the Napoleonic Code, French married women

Georges Boulanger

What leader, backed by royalists and ultranationalists, was accused of plotting to overthrow the French

The end to slavery in the United States

William Lloyd Garrison pushed for what kind of social change?

Congress passed the 15th Amendment

African Americans were allowed to vote in the US when